Unit 1 Introduction to C Language

5 lecture hours

• Art of Programming with Flowchart - Introduction
• Basic Notation
• Advantages & Disadvantages 1.2
• C language introduction 1.2.1 History
• Importance of C 1.2.2 Basic structure of C Program 1.3
• Process of compiling and executing a C Program 1.4
• Header files
• Library functions - Introduction 1.5
• Control Statements in C: if-else condition
• switch-case statement
• loops: entry-controlled and exit-controlled. 1.6
• Storage Classes: Automatic Variables
• Type Qualifiers: const

Unit 2 Arrays and Pointers

9 lecture hours

• Arrays: 1D Array
• Multi-dimensional array
• Variable Length Arrays
• Flexible Array Members
• Advanced Control Flow: The goto statement
• the NULL statement
• the comma operator
• setjmp and longjmp functions 2.4
• Pointers: Initialize
• Special Types of Pointers (NULL Pointer
• Void Pointer
• Wild Pointers
• Dangling Pointer)
• Advanced Pointers: Double pointers (pointer to a pointer)
• Function pointers
• Pointer to Function 2.6
• Multilevel Pointers

Unit 3 Functions

12 lecture hours

• Need for functions
• Elements of User-defined Functions
• Function Declaration
• Return Values and their Types
• Function Calls 3.3
• Category of Functions 3.3.1
• No Arguments and no Return Values 3.3.2
• Arguments but no Return values 3.3.3
• Arguments with Return Values 3.3.4
• No Arguments but Returns a Value 3.4
• Passing Arrays to Functions
• The Scope
• Visibility, and Lifetime of Variables. 3.5
• Advanced Function Concepts: Variadic Functions
• va_copy, and Inline Functions
• _Noreturn Functions

Unit 4 User-defined Datatypes 12 25

• Program Name: Diploma Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Information Technology Subject Code: DI05016061 Subject Name: Structured Programming with C 4.1
• User-defined datatypes 4.1.1
• Defining a Union 4.1.2
• Accessing Union Members 4.1.3
• Basic Operations of Structure - Access Structure Members
• Initialize Structure Members 4.1.4
• Copy Structure
• Passing Structure to Functions 4.1.5. typedef for Structures
• Structure Pointer 4.2
• The Preprocessor: Overview
• Conditional Compilation 4.3
• Include guards and #undef
• #pragma and #error 4.4
• Macros: Overview
• Macros vs
• Preprocessor Operators
• Predefined Macros
• Creating your own Macros Advanced Data Types: The #define statement (constants)
• Using typedef
• Complex number types
• Designated Initializers

Unit 5 File Handling in C

7 lecture hours

• Create a File
• Naming a File
• Opening a File
• Read from File
• Write to a File
• Close a File 5.2
• File Opening Modes
• Accessing File Pointer
• Read and Write in a Binary File
• File error handling